Vault of the heavens exploring the solar system's place in the universe
Fourteen lectures examining our surroundings and the place Earth and our planetary system hold in the universe. Looks at the the planets themselves--how they are constructed and how they differ from one another.
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| Language: | English |
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[United States] :
Barnes & Noble Audio,
p2004.
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| Series: | Portable professor. Science
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Table of Contents:
- Course lectures: 1. We and the Universe
- 2. Reflections of the spinning Earth
- 3. Sun and seasons
- 4. Stories in the sky: constellations
- 5. Romance of the Moon
- 6. Happy wanderers: the planets
- 7. Keeping it all together
- 8. Reaching outward
- 9. Our domain: Earth and the Moon
- 10. Iron planets: Mercury, Venus and Mars
- 11. Monsters of the midway: Jupiter and Saturn
- 12. Distant outposts: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
- 13. Leftovers of creation: comets, asteroids, and meteors
- 14. Creation.
